Re: [cobalt-users] Newbie Questions -- help!

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Ben Ilany <doltish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1)  DNS names, I talked to a techie at
> networksolutions, and they said that I must have a
> primary and secondary DNS entry.  Which would mean I
> have to have two seperate servers...is this true? 
> It sounds pretty obscure to me.

Yes, you definitely need two servers. I use my raq as
my primary and freebies like www.granitecanyon.com and
www.ultradns.net as my secondary.

The more secondaries, the better. Redundancy is
*good*.

Now in my case, since the raq is my primary dns as
well as my web server, if the primary isn't working,
my server likely isn't serving web pages either. :-)

> 2)  If I have a DSL line, which is dedicated of
> course, but my ISP provides a DYNAMIC IP
> address...will DHCP automatically change the server
> IP to match it?  And if so, wouldn't my DNS entry in
> networksolutions (for the primary and secondary IPs)
> be different than my actual IP?  Or would that
> change automatically?

To server DNS, you *need* a static IP. Maybe your ISP
can give you one. If not, you can use your raq for
web/mail only and have someone else serve DNS for you,
and set the refresh really low (like 15 minutes). 


Paul
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